fentanyl

A Central Coast community has introduced a new kind of vending machine targeted in part at UC Santa Barbara students. Instead of candy and chips, this machine is filled with fentanyl test strips, emergency contraceptives, rapid HIV tests, and the anti-overdose drug Narcan.

A bill cracking down on the deadly opioid fentanyl is on its way to the white house to become law. Local government officials met at a press conference Tuesday to discuss the bill.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department seized over 10 pounds of Fentanyl last year. Now, national lawmakers could take action against the deadly opioid.

Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal is working on legislation that calls for better coordination between federal agencies and border countries to help stop fentanyl from entering the United States.

Overdose death rates are rising locally and nationally, and Santa Barbara County is looking to address that trend with something they’re calling Project Opioid.

It’s been a year since an Atascadero mom lost her son to a fentanyl overdose. Today, for International Overdose Awareness Day, she and others will be at…

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson and District Attorney Dan Dow announced three arrests May 17 in connection with the death of 7-month-old…

What is fentanyl? It is powerful synthetic opioid, similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent. Fentanyl was originally used as an anesthetic.…

In a year when the coronavirus has racked up an immense death toll, health officials say there is an overlap with another staggering figure—Americans…

There has been a dramatic rise in deaths this year from fentanyl in San Luis Obispo County. The news comes from the county’s public health department,…